A handmade banner at Occupy Boston's encampment at Dewey Square on December 10th, 2011. The Boston Plice Department would raid the camp hours later. (Photo: Tess Scheflan / Activestills.org)
On Saturday, March 24th, Occupy Boston’s General Assembly passed a resolution to release $14,000 in donations to the Tactical Working Group for “future occupations,” or anything “directly related or needed” for a sustained occupation to occur in Boston. The resolution comes mere days before an Occupy Boston-planned event on April 1st, for which some have speculated that a ‘re-occupation’ of Dewey will be attempted (others claim that this is a mere ‘April Fools’ prank).
Here is the text of the General Assembly’s resolution:
The Tactical working group proposes the release of the $14k earmarked to Tactical for future occupations. This money can only be spent for materials directly related or needed for an occupation. These materials will include items such as tents, easy-ups, chairs, electrical supplies, and logistical materials. If more than $1,000 is needed for anything listed above, tactical will come before the GA for approval before spending
that “every decent man is asaemhd of the government he lives under.” By now, however, I am no longer asaemhd, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights — not only mine, of course, but everyone’s. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer. I did not ask for it, and I do not want it. I fervently desire that it would simply disappear without a trace, leaving individuals free to conduct their affairs by means of voluntary cooperation, free of its incessant, gratuitous threats of force and violence against unoffending people, and free of the ceaseless, insulting drumbeat of its moronic propaganda.